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>> welcome back, i'm fredricka whitfield. if a mansion sitting on 45 acres, with a pool and tennis court, long time retreat for russian diplomats and their families in maryland. the obama administration says the beach side compound and luxury estate are spy nest is, both shut down. cnn barbara starr reports on the u.s. and russia's long history of spying on each other. >> reporter: fbi cameras captured russian operative in a federal undercover agent meeting in a new york coffee shop in june 2010. 17 days later, chapman and nine other russian sleeper agents

So both nations have certainly in the past kicked out each other's spies before. >> reporter: absolutely. this has been a cat and mouse game going on really for decades. it's been immortalized in television and movies. but the reality can be quite vicious and dangerous. fbi cameras captured russian operative anna chapman and an undercover agent meeting in a new york coffee shop in june 2010. 17 days later, chapman and nine other russian sleeper agents were arrested in new york, new jersey, and virginia, charged with conspiracy to act as unlawful agents of russia, spies who had burrowed deep in...

This afternoon as part of the u.s. sanctions against russia. cnn's barbara starr is at the pentagon. in 1992 the associated press ran a story about this retreat in maryland in which one of the neighbors remarked that the russians there made their steamed crabs differently than the locals. i hope they were using old bay. but otherwise seemed fairly normal. i guess that's the point, right? >> reporter: well, you know, the best spy nest maybe looks perfectly normal from the outside. this cat-and-mouse game between moscow and washington of course has been going on for decades. it's been immort lit...

The islamic and non-islamic populations they lord over. they charge fines, civil penalties. what do they do with the money? dispatch sleeper agents into nonisis held territory, equipped with $300,000. they say, find your own battalion, or infiltrate an existing one, and with all that wealth, you can sort of creep your way to the top, and before long, you'll be the top commander, the brigade command e and whether they realize it, you manipulate them and steer them in our direction. that's how they took over a third of syria. >> raising questions about what it means for the u.s. and others who w...

A third of syria, not because these guys fight so terribly well. they went like lambs to the slaughter. i was told that a lot of guys thought there was a conspiracy to have them cakilled. the reason they are taking so much terrain, they dispatched sleeper agents into free syrian territory with a lot of money. isis is a wealthy franchise and control the oil fields and make money from human trafficking. they impose taxation, right? the more terrain they take, the more people there are to collect islamic tax from. they dispatch agents armed or equipped with $400,000 and an army brigade and with t...